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Thursday, 18 August 2016

Trader Explains Why He Named His Dog 'Buhari'

The Police in Ogun
State, yesterday, released unconditionally, the 30-year-old trader, Joe
Fortemose Chinakwe, who was arrested last Saturday for naming his pet dog
‘Buhari’.

The embattled
trader, who was visibly angry after his three-day incarceration in police cell,
was let off the hook around 5pm on Tuesday after the intervention of both the
Serkin Hausa and President-General of non-indigenes in the state.

It was learned that
the prompt intervention of the elders made the complainant to withdraw the case
he reported against the trader at Sango-Ota division which was later
transferred to Police headquarters at Eleweran. However, police sources said
both the complainant and suspect were made to sign an undertaking not to cause
any breach of peace again.

Speaking to
Vanguard after this release, the trader, a father of two from the Niger Delta,
who

trades on second hand clothing lamented that he was made to suffer for no just
cause. Complainant from Niger Republic Narrating his ordeal, Chinakwe said “It
is annoying because the complainant is from Niger Republic and I am sure he is
one of those illegal aliens in this country.

He connived with
one Police Sergeant from the Northern part of Nigeria called Musa, who works at
Sango Police division to humiliate me. Worse still, the Divisional Police
Officer there, did not help matters as he refused to entertain any plea from me
after I was arrested that Saturday night. He simply ordered his men to throw me
into the cell.”

Why dog was
named Buhari

Continuing, he said
“I did not commit any offence. I named my beloved pet dog Buhari, who is my
hero. My admiration for Buhari started far back when he was a military Head of
State. It continued till date that he is a civilian President.

After reading his
dogged fight against corruption, which is like a canker worm eating into the
very existence of this country, I solely decided to rename my beloved dog which
I called Buhari, after him. I did not know that I was committing an offence for
admiring Buhari.

Ordeal with
Police

“I was intimidated
and thrown inside the cell with hardened criminals for about three days. While
I was there, the complainant from Niger Republic and Sergeant Musa from the
North kept on taunting me saying people from my part of the country are trouble
makers and that after detaining me, they will throw me into prison where I will
die unsung. ”Even when my wife came with our baby on her back, they stopped her
from giving me food. One of my friends that came to see me was also
maltreated. “While taking me to Eleweran the next day, they handcuffed and
chained me together with that my friend. Fortunately, when we got to police
headquarters, both the Commissioner of Police and other officers were angry
with their colleagues at Sango-Ota. ”They were wondering loudly why I was
brought to the headquarters over such a minor case. It’s very unfortunate that
I have to be so humiliated in my own country because of the antics of a
foreigner in connivance with my brother from the North.”